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Add Tuscaloosa to the Birmingham metro. Tuscaloosa is a contiguous county anyway. That would boost the whole metro with more political clout in Washington, plus more Federal funds would be available to the entire area.

These thugs should have to serve everyday of the 20 year sentence. I guess black life is not worth much! There is no justice in this sentence. The perpetrators will release after five years to commit murder again.

Remember Larry Langford was led into court in handcuffs and shackles while LaPierre and Blount were allowed to turn themselves in. That has tainted the case from the beginning and that is to Larry Langford's advantage. Why did the government act in this manner favoring LaPierre and Blount? It can be used to weaken the testimony of both. It appears that they have been given special treatment from the very beginning. Judicial racism will come up during this trial whether we like it or not and the prosecutors started it! The world probably will be watching this case to see if black folks are still railroaded in the state of Alabama.

Building the dome is the only option. RAPS was supposed to be an alternative, but where is RAPS today. There are people like Brandonm2 who don't care a rat's behind about the City of Birmingham. They just butt in knowing they offer no real alternatives. I applaud Mayor Larry Langford and the Birmingham City Council for moving forward on the dome project. It is not about public opinion including outsiders that don't have a dog to fight in the matter. It is about the citizens of the City of Birmingham and what they want to try to improve their city. The citizens that live in the city limits of Birmingham is the only opinion that matters. They have spoken and the Mayor and City Council are carrying out the citizens wishes. End of talk!

That is what will happen to this judges decision! The case relied on witnesses who were guilty of fraud themselves. Not one credible witness took the stand. against Mr. Scrushy. It was a kangaroo court from beginning to the end.

Wow! 3.2 million project to finish out a new radiation oncology building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and over 100 million in projects for UAT. Hard evidence that UAB does not need to be under the same Board of Trustees as UAT. UAB got the crumbs. Those trustees should be ashamed of themselves and resign and let some trustees be named that has the whole University of Alabama System interest at heart and not just the Football god school. Colleges are supposded to be about academics and the sports are supposed to be extracurricular activities. People scream about a 57,000 dome in the largest metro area in this state of 1.2 million in population and agree to expand a stadium in a city of less than 200,000 to over 100,000 seats. How stupid of an idea this expansion is. I guess a winning football team is more important an education. I know one former Alabama player I can't figure how he got past kindergartene, although he played 4 years of football in Tuscaloosa under the "Bear"! It must be the most important issue in life in this state is college football while every other city in the Southeast passes us in the real important things.

What's Larry Langford got to do with this? Nothing! Performa was contracted by the BJCC board, not the City of Birmingham. I am not a supporter of Performa, but this is not a reason to take a cheap shot at the Mayor.

Let Birmingham annex Lipscomb quick. This place has failed at trying to be a city on it's own. Annexation by Birmingham or Bessemer would in the best interest of the ciizens of Lipscomb. The madness needs to end now!

I am glad our children will have the chance to have computers. They must make the best of this opportunity that the City of Birmingham is affording them. I salute Mayor Langford for all of the things he is trying to bring about to improve the lives of the residents of our city.

When all things are said and done, Larry Langford will be Mayor Larry Langford. The federal courts will back Mayor Langford and before he is removed from office that is where this thing will end up. For all of the suburbanites that think they still have a chance to control Birmingham, they are wrong. Even if Larry Langford were removed Mrs Carole Smitherman would become interim mayor and would easily win a new election because all of the Langford supporters would throw their support to her. She would be more inclined to follow through with Larry Langford's initiatives because of the mandate he had with the majority of the voters. Even without Larry Langford in the mayor's seat we will see his initiatives come to fruitation.

The police can't everywhere and people don't call them up and say I'm going to kill somebody before they do it! Get back into the real world. What is going on in the City of Birmingham is going on in every major city in America. If Hoover had the population of Birmingham then you would see figures of this proportion also. The more people the more crime of all tops. Our suburban municipalities will see crime grow as the population in them rises also. Ask some of our neighbors in Atlanta suburbs.

I think as long as the 40,000 seat arena is built on a foundation that it would be expandable in needed in the future, then I am all for it. We must not sell ourselves short with an arena that is locked in and could not be expanded if needed.